Vivien

Where Vivien comes from

The dictionaries list Vivien as a given name — a female given name from Latin, an exclusively feminine spelling variant of Vivian — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Latin
Along the way
  1. 1885
    First appearance
    #1,047 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1911
    Peak, #511
    66 babies named Vivien — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1913
    Vivien Leigh born
    British actress
  4. 1929
    Vivien Merchant born
    English actress
  5. 1931
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,258.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin, an exclusively feminine spelling variant of Vivian.
Namesakes
  • Vivien Leigh · British actress, 1913–1967
  • Vivien Merchant · English actress, 1929–1982
  • Vivien Thomas · American surgeon, 1910–1985
  • Vivien Keszthelyi · Hungarian racing driver, born 2000
  • Vivien Cardone · actress, born 1993

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.